Katherine Cross

Katherine is a sociologist and PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City who studies antisocial behavior online. Her work has appeared in Time Magazine, the Guardian, Boing Boing, Rewire, Bitch Magazine, and numerous other outlets; she is also a widely published videogame critic and a weekly columnist at Gamasutra. Her interests are a matryoshka doll of nerdery, through which she strives to make feminism geekier in little ways every day.

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If I could eradicate one societal ill, it would be fear, hatred, and exploitation of sex workers.

When I’m alone, I like to play Civilisation V while I drink Scotch and tweet.

The three women, dead or alive, I most want to see square off on Jeopardy are Virginia Woolf, Murasaki Shikibu, and Sylvia Rivera.